Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election in 1962, Javits was opposed by James B. Donovan, the Kennedy candidate who had made the headlines as chief negotiator of the deal by which Fidel Castro traded 9,700 Bay of Pigs prisoners for $53 million in drugs and foods. Javits won by 980,000 votes?again, he was the biggest winner anywhere in the U.S.?and became the first Republican since Calvin Coolidge to carry New York City...
...objects of their attention were the 340 athletes of the Cuban squad, sent by Llanusa to win the battle for Latin American minds by sweeping the games for Castro. Not even counting the dozens of political commissars tag ging along as "masseurs" and "trainers," the Cuban delegation was the largest on hand by far. The athletes turned out to be a handsome, swinging group-the men in white suits and straw hats, the girls in shifts of red, white and blue (Cuba's national colors) and white go-go boots...
...mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other end of which were relatives who had already fled Cuba. A Puerto Rican bus driver, hauling Castro's swimming team, stopped outside a house hastily labeled "Refuge," opened the doors and asked hopefully, "Anyone staying here?" There were even two major-league baseball scouts waving contracts at Cuban pitchers...
...people who specialize in assessing the actions of Fidel Castro are quite aptly called Castrologists, for on the basis of their past record their chief tool seems to be stargazing. Last week they looked up from their horoscopes again to proclaim that Fidel's future looked dim. The reason: for the past seven weeks he had not been acting as they thought he should be acting...
...cident on the Guantanamo border. And where was Fidel, an inveterate hurricane chaser, when Hurricane Alma hit the island? There was no evidence that he was even near the disaster areas (nor was there evidence that he was not). Furthermore, it was President Osvaldo Dorticós, not Castro, who delivered the last foreign-policy address, and Dorticos again who presided over a joint meeting of the Cabinet, party chiefs, and farm and labor leaders...